REGULATIONS 



FOR. 



COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICTS, 



IN 



TWO PARTS. 



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Part I.- -General District Regulations. 
Part JTJ.—lEBtcmal Regulations ofthe Schools. 



PREPARED BY 

THOMAS H. BURROWES, 

SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS. 



HARRISBURG: 
Printep bt Elliott & M'Cvrdy. 

1838. 
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Part JFirst* 

General District Regulations 



I. Directors and their Meetings. 

1. The Board of Directors will meet regularly on the (last Satur- 
day in March, June, September .and December, at the house of 

at 10 o'clock 
A. M., for the transaction of business, of which teachers, par- 
ents and all others having business with the Board, will take notice.,, 

2. When other meetings are necessary they shall be held by call 
of the President, (of which each member shall receive one week's 
written notice from the Secretary,) or by adjournment from a pre* 
vious meeting, at such time and place as the notice or adjournment 
shall specify. 

3. At the .regular meeting in March, annually, the President, Sec- 
retary, Treasurer and Collector for the ensuing year will be chosen ; 
the two former of whom shall, and the two .latter shall not, be mem- 
bers of the Board. 

4. Not less than four members shall constitute a quorum for the 
transaction of business, and if the President or Secretary, or both, be 
absent, a President or Secretary pro tempore shall be chosen by the 
members present. 

5. The whole proceedings of each meeting shall be entered on 
the minutes before the adjournment thereof, and shall be read aloud 
by the Secretary and signed by the acting President and Secretary. 

6. No motion can be adopted unless by the votes of three members 
when only ifour or five are present, or by the votes of four members 
m a full board of six. But if less than four members are present, 
no business eaEibe.degally transacted, except that of adjournment till 
tome other day. 

7. The District Treasurer shall attend, if possible, -at the four 
regular meetings of the Board, in order to make known the state of 
the funds, to be informed of the probable drafts on him previous to 
the next meeting, and to ascertain the [proportion ,of .funds set apa# 
for each school or .primary district. 

II. Tax, Tax meetings, i&c. 

1. The amount of ordinary tax for the year shall be fixed -at tie 
regular meeting next before the first Monday in May, annually, and 
the yeas and nays shall be called on all questions of tax, and shall be 
cnteted on the minutes. 



2. When the question of additional tax is to be submitted td the?-' 
people, the Board' shall agree upon some certain sum, exclusive of 
the amount whkri- may be by law levied by the Directors themselves, 
which shall be granted op' refused by the people in this manner : — • 
Each voter in favor of the additional tax shall write the sum required 
by the Directors on the inside of his ticket, and the word " tax" on 
the outside ; and each' person opposed to the additional tax, shall 
insert the words " no additional tax" on the inside of his ticket, and 
the word "tax" on the ; outside, and the majority shall rule as in 
other cases. 

3 At the election to decidV the question of additional tax, the 
President, or in his absence, some other member of the Board, shall 
act as Inspector, tv/o qualified voters chosen by the citizens present 
shall be the Judges, and the Secretary, or in his absence some other 
member of the Board, shall act as Clerk. 

4. The assessment of the tax, both ordinary and additional, shall 
be completed, and the duplicate and warrant for collection shall be 
placed in the hands of the District Collector on or before the lust day 
of June, annually. 

5. The Collector shall not be required" to collect the school tax 
sooner than the money' may be actually needed for the expenses of 
the district, so that the citizens may not be' unduly pressed' in the 
payment. 

61 In order to afford the tax payers the longest possible time for 
payment, the whole amount of State appropriation' for the year, and 
all balances remaining from former years, shall' be applied to the ex- 
penses of the district, before the proceeds of tax is applied. 

III. Establish met & discoffltiiiwanceoi* Schools, 
Loea'tioia and use' of School houses, &c. 

1.. A new school shall be established whenever it is proved to the 
Board that not less than 40 (or 30 or 20, as the case may be,) children 
are without reasonable and convenient opportunity of instruction, and 
When the establishment of such school will not reduce" the duration 
of teaching, in the other established schools,, to 1'ess than six months* 
in the year. 

2. Whenever it is proposed to establish a new school, the citizens 
Within' its bounds shall be invited' to' build and' furnish the house by 
private contribution, or at least to contribute partly thereto, with the* 
understanding that if they do not, the cost of the house, or the balance 
of it, shall be deducted from the rateable portion of the district funds* 
coming to their school or primary district, before actual commori 
school instruction can be commenced. 

3. The„establishment of a certain number of schools in a district 
shall not be taken to amount to a division of it into sub or primary 
districts. Sub-division can only take place by express resolution of 
fhe Board to that effect, entered on the minutes, and setting forth the 
bounds of each primary district as such. 



4. To prevent disputes about the locating of school houses, the 
'following mode will in -all cases be adopted: The Board will 

appoint four citizens resident within the bounds of the school or of 
the primary district in question, but at the opposite and most distant 
extremes thereof, who, with a member of the Board appointed for 
that purpose by the Board, but not resident within the bounds or 
primary district, shall determine the place at which the house shall 
be built; and their decision shall be reported to the Board, entered 
gii the minutes, and shall be final. 

5. If the number of regular attending pupils in any full primary 
district or school, shall at any time be reduced to 15, the same shall 
be reported by the teacher or any tax payer to the. committee, or, if 
there be no committee, to the nearest Director, who shall put up six 
written notices, at least two weeks before the end of the current quar- 
ter, at public places within the proper bounds, that the school will be 
closed at the end of the quarter, unless the number of attendant pupils 
be permanently increased to 25 (or 30 or 35, as the case may be,) be- 
fore the end of the quarter, which shall be specified. — And if such 
increase do not take place, the "School shall be discontinued altogeth- 
er, or for the season, as- the Board may determine. 

6. The school houses of the district shall not be used for pnbli e 
meetings, singing schools, religious worship, 4'C, without the con- 
sent of a majority of the proper committee, or of the Board of Direc- 
tors if there be no committee. 

IV. Distribution of ScBaool Fund. 

1. All the funds of the District, whether derived from State appro" 
priations, District tax, or other sources, shall be subject to one and 
the same rule of distribution. 

2. Each school or primary District, having not less than 30, (or 
25 or 20, as the case may be,) and not more than 50, pupils attend- 
ing or desirous of attending school, shall be counted one full school; 
each having less than the foregoing minimum number shall be ac- 
counted a half or three-fourths of a school in proportion to its defi- 
ciency ; and each having more than the maximum number shall be 
accounted one and a fourth,one and a half, one and three-fourths, 
or a double school in proportion to its excess of pupils. The schools 
(or primary Districts,) being thus proportioned, and the numbers 
and fractions of all being -added together, the whole number thus 
produced, shall form the divisor, the whole amount of funds to be 
distributed the dividend, and the quotient or result shall be the share 
of each school or District accounted as one full school; and the others 
shall receive more or less than a full share in proportion to their 
fractional excess or deficiency, as previously determined. 

3. No established school (or primary District) shall be 'denomina- 
ted less than a half school, nor shall any be denominated more Jhan 
& double school. 



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4. The distributive share of any school (or primary District) shall'* 
not; be applied tb the purposes of instruction until the cost of the 
school house be' defrayed, or some definite arrangement made for it#» 
gradual payment, by annual instalments out of the future share of 
the' school or primary District, or from some other certain source. 

T. Primary Committees. 

1. Whenever a District is laid of" into primary Districts, the citi- 
zens of each sh$ll be called on by at least six public notices, signed 5 
by the President and Secretary, and- put up at least two weeks previ- 
ous to the election, to elect three resident taxable citizens of the 
primary District to act as the primary committee. A return of which' 
election shall be made in writing by the officers thereof, (who shall 
be an Inspector and Clerk, chosen by the citizens present,) to the' 
President or Secretary of the Board. 

2. The primary committee first elected shall continue in office till; 
the last Saturday of the current School year, on which day, annu- 
ally, their successors shall be elected, to serve one year, on notice 
put up by the out-going committee, for two weeks, at six places. 

3. The primary committee shall have charge and control of the 
school building; shall make all repairs to it, subject to the direction 
of the Board; and shall provide fuel. 

4. They shall have power to grant or refuse the use of the school 
house to the citizens of the primary District for public purposes. 

5. They shall select and nominate to the Board of Directors a 
teacher for their school, who shall be appointed by the Board, if 
upon examination he or she shall appear to be a proper and compe- 
tent person for the station. 

6. They shall, with the concurrence of the Board, but not other- 
wise, fix the salary of the teacher, which they shall certify in. 
writing to the President, to be entered on the minutes. But if they 
and the Board cannot agree, or if the <Board deem it advisable to 
have uniform salaries in the District, then the Board 1 alone shall fix 
the amount. 

7. They shall, either together, or in turn separately, visit the school 
at least once each week while in operation. 

8. And they shall do and perform all such acts and duties as may 
be enjoined on them in writing, by the proper Board, for the good of 
the school. 

VI. Of Teachers— Examination, Qualifications, 
Unties, &c. 

1. No person shall be employed as teacher of a primary common 
school, unless first examined and approved by a committee of the 
Board, or other persons specially appointed for that purpose by the 



Directors, except teachers from other Districts, producing unques- 
tionable certificates of examination and. competency from the Board 
of such Districts. 

8. Eacb teacher of a primary common school shall be competent 
to give sound instruction in Orthography, Reading, Grammar, Geogra- 
phy, History, Writing, Arithmetic and Book- keeping. 

3. The Teacher shall be one qualified to give instruction in the 
German and well as the Englis h language, whenever a majority of 
the parents and guardians of the children who actually attend the 
school require it, and when such a Teacher can be obtained. 

4. The contract with each teacher shall be in ivriting,. between 
himor her and the President of the Board and his successors. 

5. The contract shall be at a fixed sum per month, for the whole 
time during which the funds of the District will authorize the Board 
to keep the school open in the year, but shall contain a condition that 
the Board may, at the end of any month, dismiss the teacher for 
incompetency, neglect off duty, cruelty or immoral conduct. 

6. No teacher shall be employed, nor the nomination of a teacher 
by a committee confirmed, except by the votes of a majority of th* 
whole Board. 

7. No teacher shall receive any compensation from parents or 
guardians in addition to that paid by the District. 

8. Twenty-four full days teaching shall constitute the teacher'* 
month, and seventy-two days the quarter. 

9. Assistant teachers shall be under the control and direction of the* 
principal teacher of the school in which they are employed. 

VII, Visitations— monthly Reports— Exaraina* 

tions. 

1. The Board of Directors shall be divided into thrtt- classes — two 
in each class — for visitation. The first class shall visit the scholars 
during the first month of the quarter, the second during the second* 
and the third during the third. The two visitors for the month shall 
attend at each school together, ard it shall be their duty to visit every 
school in the District at least once in each month. 

2. Each class of visiting directors shall report the result of their 
observations in the schools, to the Board, at their regular quarterly 
meetings, in writing, according to a form to be agreed on by the 
Board, which shall be read by the Secretary and filed with the 
minutes. 

3. In case the Visitors' reports agree in exhibiting a want of p*o» 
eress, order or usefulness in a school, it shall be the duty of the 
Board forthwith to examine into the matter, and apply the proper 
remedy; and if the Teacher's incompetency or misconduct be tb© 
cause, to dismiss him at the end of his current month. 



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4. There shall be two general and public Examinations of the 
schools, "by all the Directors, in each year, during the week previous 
to the vacations, if there be two, or if only one, then there shall be 
one general examination during the wetk previous to the discontin- 
uance of teaching for the season. The result of each examina- 
tion shall be entered on the minutes of the Board. 

5. Six citizens of the District shall be selected by the Board, as 
examiners with the Directors at the public examinations. 

Till. Duty of Parents and Ciuardiang. 

1 . Parents and guardians are expected to send their children and 
wards early to school, so that the business of the whole may not be 
interrupted and their own time wasted by irregularity. 

2. They will consult the good of their children and wards by 
compelling their attendance every day, for when children are taught 
in classes, the loss even of one day cannot be subsequently retrieved. 

3. When they are compelled by unavoidable circumstances to 
detain their children or wards from school, they will furnish them 
at their next attendance with a written excuse for such absence, 
without which, it will be the Teacher's duty to punish the pupils as 
if they had been absent without leave. 

4. They will send their children or wards to school with clean 
faces and hands, hair combed, and as decently apparelled as circum- 
stances will permit. 

5. They will not send their children or wards 1o school while 
laboring under any infectious or contagious disease-, if they do it 
will be the Teacher's duty to exclude 'them till a cure be effected. 

6. They will not be permitted at any time to interfere with the 
government or discipline of the school, but if they have any fault to 
find they shall make it known to the Committee, or nearest Director. 

7. Complaints against a Teacher are to be made to the proper 
committee of the school, if there be one, Who shall examine into the 
facts and report them to the'next meeting "of the Board for their de- 
cision, or to the nearest Director ' if there'be no committee, Who sliall 
report to' the Board. f Bdt no complaintTrom a pupil, except through 
his or her parent or' guardian, shall be "regarded. 

8. Parents and guardians will be held accountable to the Board 
or any wilful injury done to the school house, the school room, 

furniture, or books and ' apparatus belonging to it, by their children 
or wards. 

IX. Admission, Registry •& Expulsion of Pupils. 

1. New scholars 'shall Only be admitted on the first Monday df 
each month. But patents will promote the usefulness of the schools 
and the welfare of their children, if they send them only on the fiyit 
Monday of the -quarter. 



2. No ;. pupils shall be admitted unless resident 'within theprimary 
district to which the school belongs; and if- the District have not been 
regularly sub-divided, no scholar shall' be admitted living out of the 
bounds assigned to the school by the Board.; and in case the Teacher 
of the school have doubts as to the admissibility of applicants, he 
shall admit them till the opinion of the nearest Director can be ob- 
tained, who shall decide the case, till it can be finally settled at the 
naxt meeting of the Board. 

3. The Teacher of each school shall enter the name, age and 
advancement in learning of each pupil admitted, in a book provided 
for that purpose, keeping a separate list for each. He shall also note 
the ivithdrawals, suspensions, and expulsions, with the reasons there- 
for ; which book shall be open -to the inspection of the Directors, and 
of parents and. guardians. 

4. If any pupil become refractory, or indulge in practices subver- 
sive of the harmony and discipline of the school, the teacher shall, 
with the consent of the nearest resident Director, suspend such pupil 
from attendance till the next visit of the Directors, and if, upon 
investigation, the visiting Directors find good and continuing cause 
for so doing, they shall confirm the suspension till the next quarterly 
meeting of the Board. 

5. Absolute expulsion from the schools shall only be made by 
the vote of the Hoard' of Directors at a regular meeting, and shall 
only deprive of right of admission for the current school year. 

X. Religious tenets of Pupils. 

■A... The .religious predilections of pupils and their parents 

OR GUARDIANS SHALL BE SACREDLY RESPECTED. 

.2. No catechism, creed, confession, or manual of faith, shall be 
used as a school book nor admitted into the school; sectarian instruc- 
tion not being the province of the school master, but of the parent or 
guardian, and the spiritual teacher selected by him. 



Part Second. 



Internal Regulations of the Schools* 



I. Discipline, Punishments and Reports* 

1. It shall be the duty of the Teacher to< bestow equal and impar- 
tial attention on all the children placed' under his or her care. 

2. The Teacher shall be undeviating in* adherence to a firm, uni- 
form and moderate system of discipline. 

3. The Teacher shall pay most ©special regard to the morals, 
habits and general behaviour, as well; as to the mental instruction of 
his pupils. 

4. The punishments to be inflicted by the Teacher, shall be, 
1st. Reading aloud the rale violated. 2d. Insertion of the offender's 
name under the head of " bad conduct," in the Monitor's book.- — 
3d. Private and public admonition. 4th. Detention after school 
hours. 5th. Special reports or complaints to parents or guardians. 
6th. The rod. 

5. The Rod shall be applied whenever, in the Teacher's judg- 
ment, it shall be neeessary ; when used it shall be inflicted with 
certainty and effect ; but passion or cruelty in its application shall 
be avoided. 

6. The Teacher shall report to ihe Boardy not hastily nor on* 
slight grounds, but as a last resort, the names and offences of all 1 
refractory or unmanageable pupils, that they may be admonished 
suspended', or expelled. 

7. In case of any sudden difficulty in the school beyond the 
Teacher's power of arrangement, he shall call in the Committee, or 
nearest Director, whose decision shall be binding till the next meeting 
of the Board, to which the matter shall be reported for final decision. 

8. Each Teacher shall report in writing, and in tabular form to' 
the Board, through one of its members, on the last Saturday of each 
month, the number of pupils at the commencement of ihe month;-, 
the number of new admissions, with their names and ages ; the 
whole number of days attendance by each; the whole number at the' 
end of the month ; the number studying each branch ; the conduct 
and progress of each pupil, and the general condition of the school- 

II. Rules during; School hours* 

1. Each pupil must arrive at the school precisely at the time 
appointed for commencing the exercises, or be punished and 
reported to the Board. 



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2'. Oil enterittg'fhe school' fioiuse, hats and bonnets (and cloaks and' 
coats in the winter) are to be hung up at the appointed places and! 
feet are to be carefully cleaned at the door. 

3. Each scholar is to proceed at once to* his or her seat, after sa* 
luting the Teacher in a respectful manner. 

4. No speaking, whispering or scraping with the feet on the floor 
is to be permitted. 

5. No scholar is to leave his or her seat except when called 
by the Teacher, or when going to speak to' the' Teacher. 

6. When a class is called up to recite, each member is to proceed 
with as little noise and confusion as possible to>his or her proper 
place in the class, and is to stand erect and still during recitation. 

7. When the- exercises are changed from writing to arithmetic, 
from arithmetic to reading, &c, no unnecessary noise is to be made, 
in putting away books, slates, &c. 

8. No pupil is to complain of another without going to the Teach- 
er's desk for that purpose ; and if complaint be made without good 
reason, the complainant is to be punished in the same manner as the 
person complained of would have been, if the complaint had been 
well founded. 

9. Before dismission, both at noon and in the evenings books, 
slates, &c, not required to be taken home, shall be put away in their 
proper places. 

10. The pupils shall be dismissed by classes, and each class oi* 
being named by the Teacher shall quietly and speedily leave their' 
seats, take their books and hats, salute the Teacher, and leave the 
room. 

11. No pupil shall delay near the school house after dismission' 
for the day, nor on the way home.. 

12. The pupils are expected to show by their respectful saluta- 
tion of strangers whom they meet on the way from' and to home r 
that they are acquiring civility as well as knowledge at school. 

13. All quarrelling or fighting, vulgar, profane or disrespectful hxr 
guage or conduct, either in school, during intermission, or on tft*' 
way to and from school, will be severely punished. 

14. Cutting desks, benches, or window-sills, breaking windows 
or seribbling and drawing on the walls, injuring the plaster or floor, 
or any other damages to the building, either within or without, must 
be avoided, or if committed will be severely punished. 

15. The slightest approach to falsehood and dishonesty will be- 
most severely punished as offences which, if they become habitual, 
must wholly unfit their unfortunate and guilty subjects for decent 
and safe society. 

16. Each pupil convicted of falsehood! or dishonesty shall cut the 
wood, (or bring in the coal) make the fires and carry the water for ©ae 
week. 



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17. Playing truant shall be most severely punished, the truant 
being guilty of deception, idleness, and waste of time combined; each 
■truant shall, in addition to other punishments, sweep the school 
room during the noon recess, every day for one week. 

III. Hours of Instruction— Roll— Intermissions 

and Vacations. 

• 1. The hours of instruction shall be from- 8 till 12 in the fore- 
noon, and from 2 till 5 in the afternoon, from the first of April till 
the 1st of October; and from 9 till 12 in the forenoon, and 1 till 4 
in the afternoon, during the rest of the year. 

2. The roll shall be called by the Teacher precisely at the minute 
of opening school in the fore and afternoon, and all late attendances 
noted by the Monitor. Total absences shall also be noted before 
dismission at noon and in the evening. 

3. No pupil shall be permitted to.go out-of the school room during 
the hours of study, without the Teacher's permission ; nor shall two 
pupils be out at the same time. 

4. Pupils who do not go home for dinner, shall continue during 
intermission near the school-house, and every act of ill conduct 
committed during intermission, shall be punished as if it had 
been committed during school hours. 

5. The school shall be closed on the afternoon of every Saturday, 

6. The vacations shall be two weeks from the Monday next before 
Christmas, and four weeks from the first Monday in August. There 
shall be no school on the fourth of July ; but no. other, holy day. or 

■vacation shall be granted without express vote of the Directors. 

IV. Classes. 

1. As soon as practicable the Teacher shall classify all the pupils, 
-fc'here shall not be more than twelve in one -class of any particular 
branch of study. 

2. Pupils only whose advance in any particular study is nearly 
gimilar, shall be embraced in the same -class. 

3. The classes i n each branch shall be designated numerically, the 
lowest in attainment being called the first, as theirs/ class in read- 
ing, the second, class in reading, the third class in reading, &c, the 
first class in grammar, -&c. 

4. Promotions from lower classes to higher shall take place on 
Mondays, and shall be made by the Teacher ; they shall be publicly 
announced to the school on the preceding Saturday as a reward of 
merit and a mark of the Teacher's approbation. 

5. Each pupil, who, in the regular order of the class, .answers a 
question missed by the pupil or pupils above him or her, shall take 

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8. The members of the same class shall not be required to sit 
together in school. 

"?. Pupils absent from one or more recitations, shall loose thek 
places in the class and go to the foot. 

8. Males and females may be placed in the same class, if the 
number of one sex qualified for the particular class, be not sufficient 
to fill it. 

V. School-books and Studies. 

1. School books, paper, slates, &c, shall be furnished by the' 
parents or guardians of the scholars ; and the books shall be uniform* 
and of the following kinds till otherwise directed: 

Spelling Books :— .- 



Reading Books :— «■ 

Grammars :~ 
Geographies:— 

Historie8 : — » 

Arithmetics :►— 



2. The Old and New Testaments, containing the best extant 
eode of morality, in simple, beautiful and pure language, shall be 
used as a school book for Reading, without comment by the Teach- 
er, but not as 21 text book for religious discussion. 

3. All pupils having the kind of books directed by the foregoing 
rules, Shall be classified, and shall be called on to recite first. 

4. All pupils not provided with the proper kind of books directed 
by the Board, shall not be classed nor called on to recite till the 
uniform classes shall have recited. 

5. No books whatever except those actually UBed for instruction 
shall be permitted in school. 



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6. The black board and slate sliall be frequently and generally 
made use of in the study of Arithmetic and Geography. 

7. The course of studies -shall be such as may be calculated to 
impart aplain and sound 'business education. 

8. The same course of studies shall be pursued in the schools of 
the same grade by all the pupils of the same advancement in learn- 
ing without distinction ; ,and no pupil shall be admitted for the pur- 
pose of studying any, one particular branch, except by express vote 
of the Directory 

TI. tlrder of Exercises. 

1. The order of exercises shall be as follows, viz : 
-In the Forenoon — 

The Alphabet classes an their order, beginning vwith the 1st. 
The Spelling classes an their order. 
The Reading classes in their order. 
The Grammar classes in their otder. 
"The Geography classes in their .order. 

The half hour next before intermission at noon to be devoted to 
'Pennmanship. 

In the Afternoon — 

The Alphabet classes in their order. 
The Spelling classes in their order. 
The Reading classes in their order. 
The History classes in their order. 

The hour next before dismission for the day, to be devoted to 
Arithmetic and Book-keeping. 

2. Each member of the Alphabet and of the Spelling and Reading 
classes, who does not belong to any other class, is to receive at least 
four lessons in the day, viz : Two in the forenoon and two in the 

afternoon. The second lesson in the forenoon may be given while 
the larger pupils are engaged in writing, and in the afternoon while 
they are studying Arithmetic: or, if the Teacher's time will not admit 
of this arrangement, one of the larger pupils may be designated to 
give two of their lessons, tbut the-other two must be treceired from 
the Teacher personally. 

3. If the time »cft the 'Teacher will not admit df -a daily lesson to 
all the pupils in Geography and History, they may be dispensed 
with, except on Tuesdays and Thursdays, on which days the lesson 
in Grammar may be omitted. 

4. Saturdays shall be devoted to reviews or repetitions of all the 
lessons committed to memory during the week ; no new lessons of 
that kind, nor Writing nor Arithmetical exercises shall be required 
on that day. But Alphabet, Spelling and Reading pupils shall be 
attended to in the same manner as during the forenoon of any other 
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Til. Seats. 

1. Each pupil shall hav« a seat assigned .him or her by .the 
Teacher, adapted to his or >her size and age. 

2. The boys and girls aire to be separated from each other. 

3. No exchange of seats .is to take place between scholars without 
the Teacher's permission. 

4. Absence from school without leave, or without written ex- 
cuse from parent or guardian, will forfeit a seat, which may, in 
such case, be assigned by the Teacher to some other pupil if he 
think proper; and the pupil thus forfeiting his or her seat shall be 
compelled to sit. on the lowest seat, or to *tand, if there be none to 
accommodate him or her, till the next entry day, or till one becemes 
>vacant. 

■Tin. Sweeping School-room, Making fires, &c 

T. Each of the female pupils of all the highest classes,. shall for 
one day,. in turn and in alphabetical order, sweep the school room, 
dust the desks, and arrange the seats, during noon intermission, ex- 

• cept when performed, as a punishment, by a truant. 

2. Each of the male pupils of all the highest classes shall, for one 
day, in turn and in alphabetical order, prepare and bring in the fuel, 
make the fire, and carry the water, except when performed as a 
punishment for falsehood or dishonesty. 

3. A sufficiency of fuel shall be left in the school room by the 
person whose duty it is for the day, to enable the Teacher to kindle 

'the fire next morning with as little trouble as possible. 

4. In schools consisting exclusively of males or exclusively of 
females, the members of the highest classes .in each branch, shall 
sweep the room, arrange the desks, &c, andtthose of the next shall 
; attend to the fires and carry the water, in alphabetical order. 

5. Each pupil shall putf away such of his or her books, slate* 

• eopy-books, (fee, as are not to be taken home, in their proper places, 
and arrange his or her desk in a proper manner, before dismissal at 
noon and in the evening, to accomplish which, the Teacher shall 
■give the word "< arrange your desks 1 ' before dismission. 

6. The Teacher shall have the control of the temperature of the 
•room, and of its ventilation, which he will regulate according to the 
Thermometer provided by the Board, taking care not to allow the 
Mercury to rise above 70 degrees, nor fall belaw 60. degrees Fah- 
renheit,. in .the winter. 

IX. Monitors. 

1. To promote observance of the foregoing rules, and to assist in 
maintaining the discipline of the school, a monitor shall be appointed 
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,2 The monitors shall be'members of the highest classes in Gram- 
mar, Geography, History and Arithmetic ; the members of which 
classes shall serve in alphabetical order, unless when for bad conduct 
they shall be deprived of that privilege by the Teacher. 

3. The monitor shall keep a book ruled in columns under the 
following heads : Late attendance, Total absence, Lessons missed, 
and Bad conduct; and the name- of each ssholar guilty of any of 
those offences shall be entered under the proper head. 

4. The Monitor's book shall be regularly kept, and the transac- 
tions of each day, both during the fore and afternoon, entered and 
dated ; and on Saturday the whole shall be read aloud by the monitor 
before dismission, signed by him and delivered to the Teacher. 

5. No pupil is to be entered in the Monitor's book for bad con- 
duct or lessons omitted, except by direction of the Teacher. 

6i The Monitor is to call the Teacher's attention to all instances 
of bad conduct, but no other pupil is to do so, unless for some injury 
to him or herself, in which, case complaint is to. be made at the 
Teacher's desk. 

X. Publication of tlie Utiles; 

1. A copy of the rules shall be suspended in a conspicuous part 
©f the school room, for the information of the pupils and others. 

2. They shall not be altered except with the consent of the 
Directors. 

8. They shall be read aloud by the Monitor of the week, every 
Monday morning immediately after roll' call. 

4. When any pupil shall' transgress any, even the least, of the rules, 
fee or she shall be obliged by the Teacher or Monitor to stand up 
and (if able) read aloud the rule violated ; if unable, it shall be read 
to him or her by the Monitor, that the like offence may not be com- 
mitted again through ignorance. 



